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January 30th 13, 01:32 PM posted to sci.space.history
Jeff Findley[_2_]
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Apollo 13 ?
In article 88cd94a3-ee17-467b-8ac2-b2b489452627
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On Jan 29, 4:55*pm, Brad Guth wrote:
Body heat of 450 watts plus full sunlight always on half of the craft
in addition to the secondary influx of moon IR as well as the
unavoidable planetshine IR, is simply not going to provide any
freezing cold cabin environment unless their HVAC system was blasting
away with cold air.
You're quite wrong. "Space is cold", especially when you're beyond LEO
and don't have the heat of the earth aimed at half your ship.
the side of the vehicle in darness radiates the body heat fast. the
LMs walls were paper thin and not well insulated due to weight
constraints
Thermal design of the LEM is far more complicated than your gross
oversimplification.
Jeff
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